November Kellie Stamps Design Team Projects

The November release from Kellie Stamps is amazing guys!

So many stamp sets! 

I made two projects with mine, and this is the second one.

I used my laser printer and the Minc Machine to gold foil the tree from "Grinch Moment" digital stamp set. The "Merry" title is from the digital "Merry Joy" set. 

Ah, the gold foil! So easy to do with digital stamps! This is based on the very latest Studio Calico Sketch from the Studio Calico Blog. Using the Lollipop Guild Scrapbook Kit from Studio Calico. Inspired by the lovely Anna Maria Wolniak here .

 Love those vellum embellishments from the Lollipop Guild Kit, and just stapled them with the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher.

Visit the Kellie Stamps website here

to see all the great sets she released this month!!! 

Hugs,

Leigh

Clique Kits March Pep Rally 2016

It's time for another edition of the Pep Rally

from Clique Kits! You should arrive here from Mariah Hechler's blog,

 but no worries the whole hop list is below!

This layout was on the Clique Kits Blog on Feb. 20th

From the Feb.26th Blog post at Clique Kits. 

New layout created for this hop, using the lovely Seven Paper and Studio Calico "Goldie" collection by designer Ashley Goldberg! Love this patterned paper so much! Cut-a-parts, and labels by Pinkfresh Studio are exclusive to Clique Kits. Ran them through my printer to print directly on the labels. Stamps on the background "making something" by Kellie Stamps, using Aqua Mist ink from Papertrey Ink. 

Created the fringe circles with the add on silver and gold crepe paper in the Clique Kits Store, this month, and the washi tape, and paper clip are from a glassine bag in our kits this month. Inspired by a fellow Design Team Member to scrap our road trip to meet Heidi Swapp! YAY!

This week's Creative Team Planner spread using this March kit, stamps by Studio Calico and One Little Bird.

You can visit the shop at Clique Kits here, to get yourself this gorgeous kit.

Here is the entire hop lineup:

Clique Kits https://cliquekits.wordpress.com/
Gia Lau https://giaaloha.wordpress.com/
Erica Thompson https://ericarosecreates.wordpress.com/
*Melissa Vining http://yesterday2day4ever.blogspot.co.nz
*Leeann Pearce http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com.au/
*Carolina Schulz www.carolinaschulz.com
*Kat Benjamin http://kraftykat9.blogspot.com
*Marcia Dehn-Nix http://www.onescrapatatime-bymumsie.blogspot.com/
*Maryam Perez Osorio http://maryamperez.blogspot.com/
Elsie Robinson http://heyelsie.blogspot.com/
Sandy Gonzalez http://craftythought.com
Taina Cortes (Evi) http://lifewithevi.blogspot.com/
Kim Allen http://kimsscrappyblog.blogspot.com/
Hannah Lemieux http://www.scrapbookpagesandcupcakes.com/
Charity Feit http://www.scrapfaire.blogspot.com/
Mariah Hechler www.fun2scrap.blogspot.com/
Leigh Ann Odynksi  http://www.artfulleighcreative.com*******YOU ARE HERE

Shimelle Online Scrapbooking Weekend March 5-6, 2016

Shimelle.com has a super fun

online scrapbooking weekend for us on March 5-6, 2016!

Here is my challenge entry for the Map and Globe Challenge

 Supplies: PP from the Shimelle True Stories 6x6 paper pad, and 3 chipboard circles from Studio Calico (March 2015 Odyssey PL Kit) , tissue from Target, card stock  Studio Calico, Gold Thickers( Shimelle- Fitzgerald)  White Thickers(Amy Tangerine- American Crafts), stamps from Shimelle Starshine, and map stamp from Papertrey Ink.

Those little mini clothespins are from Target Dollar Spot

This layout was inspired by a beautiful layout by Emma_KW on IG, and here is a direct link to her lovely page:
http://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/180590-hi

The stamps are from Shimelle's new Starshine line from American Crafts. 

Thanks for stopping by, and visit Shimelle.com for lots of inspiration and challenges this weekend. 

You have a full week to join in and add your entries to her blog with Inlinkz

Shimelle Contributing Designer 2016 Layout #1 Process Video

Yay! It' another Fri-yay Video Day!

So excited to share my first Shimelle DT Layout Process Video!! 

 Thank you for watching, and please thumbs up and subscribe! 

Hugs, 

Leigh

Project Life 2015, Week 17 Double Page Spread

Week 17 Both pages, 

in love with the blush and gray color scheme of these cards!!

Supplies: Becky Higgins LLc photo pocket pages, We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool, all other Studio Calico April PL kit called Lisse 

Street, except for blush chipboard heart on right( from the Jan Studio Calico PL Kit and  some machine stitching.

Left Side: did the journaling on the computer with the font American Typewriter

portion in focus highlighting the stitching on the chipboard circle:)

Thank you for visiting today! 

Project Life Week 17 Using the Fuse Tool To Make a Custom Pocket Page

Made a 8"x12" pocket page for two vertical 4x6 photos, 

and 4 horizontal 3x4 cards for Project Life! 

Easy with the We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool!

Supplies: Becky Higgins LLC. Project Life photo pocket pages, WE R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool, Studio Calico Monthly Project Life Kit (April Lisse Street),  Studio Calico enamel dots, american typewriter font journaling done on computer.

Here is my custom page protector made from a 12x12 Beccy Higgins Llc. photo pocket page! LOVE that you can use what you have on hand to create this with the Fuse Tool!

This is the Fuse Tool! LOVE IT

Thank you for joining me today in my creative spot on the web! 

Card Share:Summer All Occasion cards

I got the new Hero Arts Ombre inks and really wanted to try them out.

So I created two Just Because cards to send off to family.

Hero Arts Stamps and ink and Studio Calico Paper, Paper Trey Ink Dies. Simple design and added a toothpick to give some dimension to the little signs:)

Hero Arts Ombre Inks, Studio Calico Paper, and Paper Trey 

Ink stamps and dies. Placed each little square on Studio Calico Card Kit card stock and used my sewing machine around each one. The inside says "Sit down and RELAX" :)

Easy Summer Cards

Thank you for visiting today!!

Week 16 Project Life 2015

Hi Project Life loving friends!

Sharing Project Life spread for week 16, April 13-19 of 2015.

Using Studio Calico April Project Life kit called Lisse Street. Main kit and the 4x6 card under the title came from the cards included with my We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool, ordered from Studio Calico. LOVE theses cards designed by Ali Edwards in this month's kit. Chose the nice and soft peach and soft blue and mustard with a little green to go with the dog photo.

Added a couple of embellishments, the chipboard arrow included in the kit, and the gray phrase stickers.

Cut up the green 3x4 card to go at the bottom and stitched on the chipboard "&". Minimal embellishments this week.

Thank you for visiting the Artful Leigh Creative!

Project Life 2015 Week 14

I had a rainbow of colors in the photos for week 14, so black and white Project Life cards

were perfect. Heck, they are ALWAYS perfect in my book! Love black and white!

"Bliss" Card from Studio Calico Carolina Moon (May PL kit), woodgrain card from Studio Calico Cirque PL Kit (Feb 2015) , and all the rest of the cards are from Artful Leigh Creative on Etsy. The font on the photos is from the Rhonna Farrer app, Rhonna Designs available in the app store. 

 The copper stars came in the Studio Calico May PL kit Carolina Moon,  and I absolutely love how they bring out the copper color in the pet painting I did, and the Brioche burger bun...

You can enhance and emphasize the colors in your photos by choosing embellishments mindfully and being aware of their color. Repetition is a design principle that helps unify the pages in your albums.

 close up of chipboard copper stars

Thank you for visiting today!!

Artful Leigh Creative

Project Life 2015 Week 13

Hello crafters! Another Project Life share today! Another week of all I-Phone photos.

Week 13: Left side Studio Calico PL kit 2015 Feb, and March. The title card is SC patterned paper in woodgrain and the March add-on Paper pad for Odyssey kits. Color scheme for this week = woodgrain and black and white.

Week 13: SC PL kits Odyssey (March '15), and Cirque (Feb.'15), and the only embellishment is the flair from Studio Calico. Simple and done. Word art I created in Photoshop.

both sides

I like adding journaling in Photoshop, because its like two birds one stone. I am printing the photo at home anyway, so adding the journaling before printing is a win, win for me! 

Thank you for joining me on the web today!

Artful Leigh Creative 

Wednesday Project Life Share 2015

Here's a closer look at Week 12 now in the books, and isn't it nice that you can see both pages at once here on the blog?  I usually share one page at a time on Instagram.

Week 12: All supplies Studio Calico: March Project Life Kit (Odyssey), add-on paper pad, add-on washi tape, word art created in Photoshop.


Again this week, I had no camera photos,  and all pics are from my I-phone 6+. This PL spread went super quick, as I only added journaling in two spots and the title.  I was trying to  decide what to do with the map cards, but then I got the idea to journal from an "our place in this world" perspective, and I am glad. Sometimes journaling a few weeks later helps, in that you can focus on a feeling, or thought instead of "we went here, and did this". Both perspectives totally work, and are used all the time by me and other PL'ers, but I like having a variety also.



Thanks for visiting today, and happy documenting!

2015 Project Life Share [March Pages] and #hastagthisweek

I have two Project Life double page layouts to share today, 

so that you can get a closer look at what I shared on Instagram.

Using the March Studio Calico Project Life Kit

called Odyssey, and some cards by me.

Week 11 right side: using some cards from my Paper Hearts and Loving Words set on Etsy, and some Photoshop word art for the journaling. 

Week 11 left side. Patterned Paper Pad add-on from Studio Calico, and a Studio Calico wood veneer typewriter. Paperclips from Target.

This week was a bit of a challenge due to the fact that I had NO 4x6 photos to work with, but after I decided to use them as 3x4 in the 4x6 pockets, it all worked out easy enough. That's one of the things I love about Project Life, it simply works, no matter what pics you have!!

Week 11:Both sides together

Week 10 right side: Studio Calico PL Kit, Heidi Swapp Star, and an office supply Target Paper clip. Loved the aqua labels that came in this month's kit, and just added word art in Photoshop and cut them out to go on top of the labels. sequin stars and speech bubble from old SC kits in 2014.

Week 10 left side: SC PL kit March (Odyssey), word art in Photoshop by me.

Week 10: Both sides

#hashtagthisweek from Mandy at TurqouiseAvenue is the photograph your town prompt. This is my FAV photo I took on a photo walk down main street Henderson, Nevada. The photos of active military personnel that are proudly honored here is my FAV! Always proudly supporting the military here!!

Thank you for joining me here. 

You-Tube Video Reveal Project Life #myselfiescrapbook: Fuse Tool Feature

You-Tube video of #myselfiescrapbook reveal, using Becky Higgins Llc. Project Life Gold

Album and mostly Studio Calico Carolina Moon May Project Life Kit

with the new We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool.

Look for the four ways I  use the Fuse Tool 

on the 2x2 pockets!

Short little ten minute video showing the full reveal of the #myselfiescrapbook and a better look at the four ways I used the Fuse Tool on these adorable little pockets!

Thank you for watching and please subscribe to my channel on You-Tube for more upcoming videos!

#myselfiescrapbook Blog Hop: Reveal of completed 4x4 mini

Yay! It's here! THE

#myselfiescrapbook Blog Hop for our completed albums!!

I want to thank Jennifer Lake at Sunlight and Air

and Julie Love Gagen at How I Sustain 

for all their coordination, freebies, and this genius idea to 

inspire us to get ourselves documented in 

the #myselfiescrapbook!!

gold album: BeckyHigginsLLC

card: Artful Leigh Creative

all photos and words created in Photoshop CC 2014, embellishment: Studio Calico

Patterned Paper: Studio Calico Carolina Moon PL Kit,  word art:Artful Leigh Creative

Tool: We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool to create sequin pockets

Photos and words: Photoshop CC 2014, sequin pocket made with Fuse Tool

Flair:Studio Calico, PP:Studio Calico, Chip.triangles:Heidi Swapp

cards: Artful Leigh Creative embellishments: Studio Calico

Clear Card: Heidi Swapp September Skies Value PL Kit, pp: made using the Carolina Moon stamp from Studio Calico, flair:Studio Calico

PP:Studio Calico, word art: Photoshop CC 2014

"From Where I Stand" word art: Little Lamm Co, triangle pockets made with the Fuse Tool, Hexagon puffy stickers:Heidi Swapp

 And ,um, can I just say I had so much fun using the Fuse Tool to create unique little pockets!!!

word art made in Photoshop CC 2014

floral  card : hand drawn by me,  gold heart: Studio Calico, sequin square pocket made with the Fuse Tool

Pray card: Gina Cabrera for Digital Design Essentials via Record Life Blog, other cards: Artful Leigh Creative

"Me" word art by Littlelammco on Etsy,  PP; Studio Calico, heart: Studio Calico

Favorite Cards: Artful Leigh Creative on Etsy, PP: Studio Calico, washi tape used to create floral paper, sequins and bow: Studio Calico

love this bow from Studio Calico

word art created in Photoshop, bow: Studio Calico

I LOVE tea!

"Love your Self" word art freebie from Polka Dot Creative, button: Studio Calico

cards created in Photoshop, flair: Studio Calico, puffy arrow sticker: Heidi Swapp

last page, cards by Artful Leigh Creative on Etsy, signed the last card like Julie G did, thanks for the inspiration ladies!!!

Super Chunky mini that I cherish so much!!

I can't tell you how great it feels to use photos I have been saving for the last two years, because there wasn't room in the family album, and by room I mean I didn't feel comfortable putting lots of pics of me in our weekly spreads. A real sincere thank you to the girls who put this together because you have changed my thinking! We deserve to be recorded too! We are worth the time it takes and our posterity will know something about us too!!

Thank you 

Thank you Thank you!!

Jennifer Lake @ Sunlight and Air

Julie Gagen @ How I Sustain

Mandy Elliott @Record Life Blog

Jessica @Color Cast Designs

Jodi @ PolkaDotCreative

Kellie @Give A Girl A Blog